[Bug 480128] New: Licensing issues with google-breakpad

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  bug-buddy | general | Ver: 2.20.x
           Summary: Licensing issues with google-breakpad
           Product: bug-buddy
           Version: 2.20.x
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: critical
          Priority: Normal
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: bug-buddy-maint at gnome.bugs
        ReportedBy: joss at malsain.org
         QAContact: bug-buddy-maint at gnome.bugs
                CC: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
     GNOME version: 2.19/2.20
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


As already discussed in bug#479507, there are some licensing issues with the
google-breakpad code shipped with bug-buddy.

The claimed licensed is a 3-clause BSD, but some files are different:

src/common/convert_UTF.c has the following license:
 * Unicode, Inc. hereby grants the right to freely use the information
 * supplied in this file in the creation of products supporting the
 * Unicode Standard, and to make copies of this file in any form
 * for internal or external distribution as long as this notice
 * remains attached.
This is clearly not free as no rights to modify the file are granted. However
it looks like it could easily be replaced with some glib functions.

src/processor/postfix_evaluator.h and src/processor/postfix_evaluator-inl.h are
licensed under the Apache license version 2. This may be a mistake from Google,
but as is it is not possible to distribute a bug-buddy build using these files.
Either clarification should be obtained from Google, or the bug-buddy copyright
holders could be all asked for a relicensing under GPLv3, which is compatible
with the ASL.


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